Hear IPP’s David Osterberg Tuesday evening on “The Fallon Forum,” online at 983wowfm.com or on 98.3 WOW-FM. “The Fallon Forum” is Monday through Thursdays from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. To participate, call (515) 312-0983 or (866) 908-TALK. For more information about the program, see http://fallonforum.com/?p=840.
Posted tagged ‘budget’
Osterberg interview Tuesday 7 p.m.
August 1, 2011The reality of Recovery Act funds: They helped!
July 29, 2011More teachers will be on the job in Iowa in the coming month and class sizes will be more manageable because Recovery Act funding saved positions in recent years.
Report confirms need: Put consumers above insurance biz interests
July 25, 2011The report found rural Iowans rural were more likely to skip routine doctor visits, leave prescriptions unfilled or switch to higher-deductible health plans to save on medical costs. Exchanges under health reform can better meet their needs.
7 for 7 against 1
July 20, 2011With unemployment over 9 percent nationally, the economists’ thoughts are worth noting — particularly with regard to the impact of restrictions on responses to economic downturns.
Get budget rhetoric in line with reality
July 8, 2011In Iowa, budget rhetoric is what’s been out of control. Politicians have manufactured a crisis, when we need budget discussions to be based on logic and facts, not scare tactics.
How do the House and Senate property tax proposals differ?
June 23, 2011Though the mechanisms in each proposal differ slightly, the primary difference is simply one of magnitude.
Too many unknowns in proposed property tax rollback
June 15, 2011Any legislation that emerges from House-Senate negotiations needs to do better than HF697 in assuring sustainable and fair changes to Iowa’s property-tax system.
Families, farmers subsidize property tax break for business
June 9, 2011Rather than having big businesses contribute to our cities and counties, individuals and families would pick up an even larger portion of our city and county governments’ tab.
Article III, Section 24
June 8, 2011Most years, nobody would give Article III, Section 24, a second thought. Textbook civics. But 2011 is no ordinary year. It’s making us think outside the textbook.
Why a balanced approach is the only option
May 16, 2011The Bush tax cuts, and plugging corporate tax loopholes, are on the table in the world of reality, if not the world of politics.
